musketeer
Noun
Meaning
A soldier armed with a musket.
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I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
A few days later, Operation Musketeer needed the element of total surprise to succeed, and all 660 men had to be on the ground at El Gamil airfield and ready for action within four and a half minutes.
Algerian War As soon as they disembarked from the carriers that took part in Operation Musketeer, at the end of 1956, all three Corsair Flotillas, moved to Telergma and Oran airfields in Algeria from where they provided CAS and helicopter escort.
A major problem both politically and militarily with the planning for Musketeer was the one week interval between sending troops to the eastern Mediterranean and the beginning of the invasion.
Equipping each new Musketeer came with such yelling and screaming that someone might have thought that the feathers were being plucked from Lafruz khanim herself or from some of her very close relatives.
Musketeer would require thousands of troops, leading the British to seek out France as an ally.